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Daily Stoic, 3/19/18

"For there are two rules to keep at the ready--that the...
passionate resort
  03/19/18
But how do you distinguish an event you cannot lead from a r...
Histrionic Rose Giraffe
  03/19/18
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot ch...
passionate resort
  03/19/18
Aaaand I'm out
chartreuse kitchen
  03/19/18
Explain your take on the OP then.
passionate resort
  03/19/18
It's not about attempting perfect discrimination between eve...
180 indian lodge
  03/19/18
Fucking credited.
passionate resort
  03/19/18
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Orchid black woman
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Abnormal state rigor
  03/19/18
coming at it from this angle still reeks of the kind of dual...
chartreuse kitchen
  03/19/18
*kid in back of auditorium makes loud fart sound* Laughter ...
Histrionic Rose Giraffe
  03/19/18
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carmine razzmatazz shrine
  03/19/18
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carmine razzmatazz shrine
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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:09 AM
Author: passionate resort

"For there are two rules to keep at the ready--that there is nothing good or bad outside my own reasoned choice, and that we shouldn't try to lead events but to follow them."

Epictetus, Discourses, 3.10.18

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636202)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:23 AM
Author: Histrionic Rose Giraffe

But how do you distinguish an event you cannot lead from a reasoned choice you *can* make?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636225)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:31 AM
Author: passionate resort

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636240)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:34 AM
Author: chartreuse kitchen

Aaaand I'm out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636243)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:37 AM
Author: passionate resort

Explain your take on the OP then.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636244)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:43 AM
Author: 180 indian lodge

It's not about attempting perfect discrimination between events you can and cannot change.

It's about reducing your ego - to stop trying to control / change ALL events, and the realization that you're largely along for the ride.

This in no way implies you shouldn't put effort into reasoned choice - but that you need to learn acceptance, and that you are an actor in this show of life not the Director

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636247)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:46 AM
Author: passionate resort

Fucking credited.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636254)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:47 AM
Author: Orchid black woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636257)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:38 AM
Author: Abnormal state rigor



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: chartreuse kitchen

coming at it from this angle still reeks of the kind of dualism that leads to an undue veneration of logic, even if stoics try to shrink the domain over which our rationality has dominion.

while i also prefer to think of our lives as riding an uncontrollable wave and that we can only make small changes in our tack, i don't agree that the methodology for making these changes is one that demands something like rationality maximization, not least because of staggering diminishing returns to rationality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35637065)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 11:27 AM
Author: Histrionic Rose Giraffe

*kid in back of auditorium makes loud fart sound*

Laughter erupts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35637227)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 12:27 PM
Author: carmine razzmatazz shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35637548)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: carmine razzmatazz shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922648&forum_id=2#35636987)